Mailbag: Did I become a manager too soon?

I recently got an email about moving into an engineering managementrole too early in the email writer’s career:

I became an engineering manager two years ago, which was also two years into my career.The reason is mainly that we were a small team and when the time came to add line management I was around and down for it.I have loved this position, and find it extremely fulfilling to be able to remain technical and still have a deeply human job and build strong relationships with my team and a...